公开(公告)号：US20230005320A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-05

申请号：US17782078

申请日：2020-09-21

申请人： Weihai New Beiyang Digital Technology Co., Ltd. ,  Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.

发明人： Deyi Li ,  Jian Li ,  Juntao Liu ,  Hongming Li ,  Tianxin Jiang

IPC分类号： G07F9/00 ,  G07F11/16 ,  G07F11/10

摘要： An automatic vending machine includes a cabinet, a plurality of item columns, a pickup port and a delivery apparatus, and the delivery apparatus includes a hopper and a hopper drive mechanism. An item dispensing method of the automatic vending machine includes: determining, according to items to be purchased, all of item combination manners having a lowest number of item dispensing operations as candidate item combination manners; determining all of pickup manners for picking up items in each of the candidate item combination manners; determining all of item dispensing paths in one-to-one correspondence to all of pickup manners of all of the candidate item combination manners; and selecting, from all of the item dispensing paths, an item dispensing path having a highest efficiency as a target item dispensing path, and controlling, based on the target item dispensing path, the hopper to dispense items.

公开(公告)号：US11915562B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-27

申请号：US17782078

申请日：2020-09-21

申请人： Weihai New Beiyang Digital Technology Co., Ltd. ,  Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.

发明人： Deyi Li ,  Jian Li ,  Juntao Liu ,  Hongming Li ,  Tianxin Jiang

IPC分类号： G07F11/10 ,  G07F9/00 ,  G07F11/16

CPC分类号： G07F9/006 ,  G07F11/10 ,  G07F11/16

摘要： An automatic vending machine includes a cabinet, a plurality of item columns, a pickup port and a delivery apparatus, and the delivery apparatus includes a hopper and a hopper drive mechanism. An item dispensing method of the automatic vending machine includes: determining, according to items to be purchased, all of item combination manners having a lowest number of item dispensing operations as candidate item combination manners; determining all of pickup manners for picking up items in each of the candidate item combination manners; determining all of item dispensing paths in one-to-one correspondence to all of pickup manners of all of the candidate item combination manners; and selecting, from all of the item dispensing paths, an item dispensing path having a highest efficiency as a target item dispensing path, and controlling, based on the target item dispensing path, the hopper to dispense items.

公开(公告)号：US11488435B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-01

申请号：US16957864

申请日：2018-09-25

申请人： Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.

发明人： Chunguang Zhang ,  Yang Liu ,  Botao Wang ,  Peng Tao ,  Deyi Li

IPC分类号： G07F11/16 ,  G01B21/02 ,  G06Q20/18 ,  B65G1/06

摘要： Disclosed are a vending machine and a method of detecting height of a storage column. The vending machine may determine whether a sensor squarely faces the front end surface of the level plate of a storage column by detecting the type of an output signal of the sensor. When the sensor squarely faces the front end surface of the level plate of the storage column, the height of the level plate of the storage column may be obtained based on a height difference between the sensor and the bearing surface of a bucket and the height of the bucket. Thus, according to the height of the level plate of the storage column, the bearing surface of the bucket and the upper edge of the front end surface of the level plate of the storage column lie in the same level when dispensing an item.